By Elinor Abreu – Two years after putting aside rivalries to work together to solve a problem with Internet data exchange, a group of leading technology companies has agreed on a new flexible standard for describing data that is transferred over the Internet that will be a boon to business-to-bus
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Transferring a SQL Server Diagram
By Brian Knight – So you’ve created a diagram that you now need to transfer to a different server or database. This can be done two ways. The easiest method to transfer your diagram is to do a complete backup and restore onto the destination database. If you don’t have the luxury of performing a
XML on Net takes big step forward
By Wylie Wong – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced Tuesday that it has approved a new Web standard, called XML schemas, that make it easier to develop common vocabularies, so companies can communicate and exchange data. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a Web standard for i
Microsoft, IBM reach Web services milestone
The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration project was launched last September to provide a "yellow pages" of sorts for businesses to publish information about their own services and find services they need from other businesses. The goal of the free business registry is to enab
Versient and Pageflex Form Strategic Partnership
Pageflex, Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and Versient announced today a strategic alliance. Both companies will jointly promote Pageflex and Versient technology. Versient continues to be one of the largest licensees of Pageflex technology, and has utilized the technology in a number of applicatio
Intel To Market E-Biz Performance Management Apps
By Mike Mayor, www.CRMDaily.com Visual Insights has struck a deal with Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC – news) to promote Visual Insights' next-generation e-business performance management software. The announcement came at this week's Intel Solutions Summit in San Diego, California.
XSLT Debugging – Under the loop
This article is about the debugging of XSL Stylesheets and how to do it with currently available XSL Debuggers. As an intro, Pieter Siegers starts with a short explanation of what XSLT is, and how the XSLT process works. Then we see how that process can be debugged using the Microsoft MSXML parser
The Route to Scalability
Despite the impressive Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)scores that Microsoft generated by using scale-out technology and SQL Server's federated-databases feature, it's too soon to count out scale-up technology based on SMP systems. Adding more processing power by scaling up
XSLT UK 2001
The conference was opened by Norm Walsh from Sun Microsystems, member of the XSL Working Group and maintainer of one of the more complex XSL applications — the DocBook XSL family, which he talked about later in the day. Norm set the scene for the conference, reminding us of the origins of XSLT an
Speed Up SELECT DISTINCT Queries
The next time you find yourself using the SELECT DISTINCT statement, take a moment to see if it can be re-written for improved performance. You may be surprised at what a little re-coding can do for your application.